Overview of Awesomeness

Rating: 10/10 (27 October 2013)

Jaegers: enormous metallic giants with missiles, mega-swords, and nuclear engines. Kaiju: even more enormous scaly monsters that rise from the ocean floor and do battle with Jaegers. What more do you need to know? That Guillermo del Toro is the director? That seeing 50 story robots using boats as weapons is pure adrenaline? The soundtrack is an amazing mix of old and new, lending it's self to classic Japanese monster movies and to modern action classics at the same time. Guillermo is an artist and a painting is what he has made with this movie. Just like a painting you bring to it your own set of interpretations and prejudices. For me this movie represented all the things I watched growing up and more, It was the summation of every giant Robo/monster flick ever made. Plot? Plenty to go around and if it was a bit cliché? As I said, this painting allows you to bring your own set of preconceptions to it. I saw it for what it was, an homage to those that went before and those that will be able to take the torch and carry it on. This is not your Power Rangers or Voltron and it sets the bar so high I doubt even Godzilla can survive without taking some points away from this piece of art. Art, yeah it's art it's just not pretentious enough or some.